November 1, 2007
Pick the score and win...
By MARC BERMANCLEVELAND - Sounds like everyone is close to being talked out regarding every preseason issue. Thankfully, the story advances tomorrow night at Quicken Loans Arena - the first...
darian barnes for captain
Darian Barnes, a Jets fullback, may or may not play this week. He's more of a role player than an impact player and, like last Sunday, he sometimes doesn't make...
Deal of the Day
If you are sick of your Brooklyn hoodie, show a little borough pride with this sterling silver "Brooklyn" ID Ring.It isn't a colorful cocktail ring, but it's a quirky and...
Starr Report
Ronnie Dunn, one of the performers on next week's "CMA Awards," is holding a unique premiere for the upcoming movie, "August Rush" (Keri Russell) (right). Dunn will host some of...
Avery Return is Game-Time Decision
It's up to Tom Renney to decide at game time whether Sean Avery is fit to play, but the winger's recovery from his separated shoulder is all but complete. In...
Oscar Watch: Tom Touts 'Todd'
I've often gone out on a limb in making Oscar predictions (I was right on longshot wins by Adrien Brody and Hallie Berry and uh, less so in forecasting a...
New 'Cloverfield' Trailer Described
It looks like that much-anticipated Jan. 18 sci-fi flick from producer J.J. Abrams whose trailer created a stir back in July actually is called "Cloverfield.'' Devin Farci of CHUD got...
Strike Fever Grips Tinseltown
Talks between the studios and the Writers Guild of America broke off several hours before last night's midnight deadline and a vote to walk out could come as early as...
THE PONY EXPRESS
Before there was Federal Express, there was the Pony Express. Here's a brief history of how the mail got delivered using good old-fashioned horsepower. IMAGINE if you wrote a letter...
THE SWILL OF VICTORY
A marathon is a sporting event, but it's a whole lot more than that. Push the limits of human endurance over 26 bone-crunching miles, and you've got an epic journey...
THE FRICK LIGHTENS UP
LOVE just came out of the dark. Or so it seems at the Frick Collection, which just reopened its refurbished Fragonard Room. Now, thanks to the miracle of fiber-optic lighting,...
TWYLA OFFERS A LITTLE EXTRA SOMETHING
TWYLA Tharp is the only choreographer, apart from Mark Morris, to move fluently between classic ballet and modern dance. She even embraces Broadway. At 66, she's produced more ballets for...
HAUTE LIST
"Vodka, from what I see at the discotheque, is the favorite liquor of the young," designer Roberto Cavalli says. "They love to mix it with water, with orange juice, and...
STYLE ON THE RUN
WHO says runners don't care about what they wear? Here are some of our favorite accessories for pavement pounding. It all comes out in the wash - even gross embedded...
PROJECTION: NOT TO BE
AS with many of its efforts, the sheer technical industriousness of the Wooster Group's "Hamlet" is so impressive that we're nearly able to overlook its pointlessness. This legendary troupe has...
MENACE WRITTEN IN INC.
ANYONE who's ever worked in an office knows that when you hear that a colleague "stopped following the protocol," it doesn't signify anything good. That phrase takes on a deeper...
STARR REPORT
Show 'em some love Just what is it with us New Yorkers and the shunning of "CSI: New York"? The show does fine nationally, but a few weeks back I...
SMITTEN SABRINA
CHEETAH Girl Sabrina Bryan was still dancing yesterday - despite being booted off "Dancing With the Stars" the night before. She was doing the quick step around reports that she...
LET'S GO TO THE...VIDEO APE
RUST is the new black - and orangutans are the new meerkats. A new bunch of reality show participants - who don't even know they are reality show participants -...
BRAVELY GOING HALFWAY
STEPHEN Colbert, who vowed to enter the South Carolina presidential primary as both a Democrat and a Republican - so he could "lose twice" - apparently won't get that chance....
'PRISON' STAR PRISON-BOUND
A judge yesterday sentenced "Prison Break" actor Lane Garrison to more than three years in state prison for a booze-fueled crash that killed a teen passenger. Garrison, 27, could have...
IF IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY
Can one person make a difference? Can one single individual change the course of the future? Yes they can, simply by changing themselves. Your birthday chart indicates that if you...
POLS SPLIT ON MIKE'S CUT$
Some City Council members said yesterday they're taking a wait-and-see approach on $1.5 billion in service cuts Mayor Bloomberg is seeking, while others say the reductions are necessary. "New Yorkers...
MAYOR TO MEET ZADROGA KIN
Mayor Bloomberg will have a sitdown with the family of NYPD Detective James Zadroga - who died after working at Ground Zero - next week, City Hall officials said yesterday....
UH, OWE! LAWYERS SUE KERIK FOR 200G
Disgraced former Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik is a deadbeat who owes a Manhattan law firm $200,000, court papers charge. The firm of Fulbright & Jaworski has filed suit against the...
CUNY THEFT THREATENS STUDENT IDS
As many as 20,000 current and former CUNY students are at risk of identity theft after a laptop with their names and Social Security numbers was stolen from a financial-aid...
5TH AVE. SLAY SHOCK
A legendary New York real-estate agent who found homes for celebrities from Sting to Steven Spielberg was bludgeoned to death in her Fifth Avenue apartment, police said yesterday. The body...
MOLL TAPE A REAL KILLER
She was supposed to be the government's star witness. Instead, a mob moll whacked the Brooklyn DA's blockbuster murder case against a former FBI agent accused of giving deadly information...
BLING KING JACOB IN JAIL DEAL
"Jacob the Jeweler" copped to charges that he lied to the feds and falsified records in a plea deal that could put the famed diamond dealer on ice for nearly...
AXED AD BIG SUES OVER 'WHORE'IBLE ORDEAL
The former creative director for the U.S. arm of Japan's largest advertising agency was pressured to sleep with hookers and placed in sexually charged situations on business trips as a...
FOUR SHOT IN UNION SQUARE
Four men were shot by a gunman and another was stabbed early today after a brawl in Union Square, which was filled with Halloween revelers, police said. The mayhem stemmed...
ARMY FETES 13 HEROES OF SEPT. 11
The Army yesterday honored New York military personnel who gave their best on 9/11. Secretary of the Army Pete Geren was in town to award 13 first responders - including...
SCHOOLS' SUPERBUG MISSION 'SCRUBBED'
Health and education officials canceled a recommendation yesterday that called for scrubbing schools daily in the wake of the "superbug" scare, but admitted they don't have a concrete plan to...
SURRENDER IN S.I. 'HIT-RUN'
A young Brooklyn man is under arrest for plowing into a woman and leaving her to die on a Staten Island street, cops said yesterday. Ibraim Qoku, 19, allegedly mowed...
TOOTH AND NAIL
Child-welfare officials have filed an unusual petition of neglect against the estranged wife of a murdered Queens orthodontist to keep her from getting her daughter back - in part because...
BORDER-COP ATTACK VS. SPITZ PLAN
ALBANY - Groups representing current and former border patrol officers yesterday became the latest law-enforcement organizations to urge Gov. Spitzer to scrap his plan to allow illegal aliens to obtain...
B'KLYN REACHES FOR THE SKIES
Here's a first glimpse of Downtown Brooklyn's bold future. Animated video and renderings obtained by The Post yesterday portray spectacular views of how $9.5 billion in projects now in the...
STEAM-BLAST VICTIM TO LEAVE HOSP
A tow-truck driver horribly burned in July's Midtown steam-pipe explosion is being released from the hospital today, a family source said. Gregory McCullough, 21, suffered third-degree burns over 80 percent...
100G CON RAP HITS U. PHONY
The cunning co-ed who duped Ivy League colleges into enrolling her has been indicted in South Carolina for stealing the identity of a missing woman to attend Columbia University, officials...
PEDESTRIANS 'TICKED' OFF
The city is going to install 164 pedestrian countdown clocks at 21 intersections along major commercial arteries in all five boroughs in a major expansion of a small pilot project,...
DEATH REPORT
While flying to Phoenix on the day she died, Carol Anne Gotbaum was crying and quaffed a Blood Mary, a flight attendant says. The account is contained in the final...
BX. KILLER A TERRORIST
In an unprecedented verdict, a jury yesterday found a Bronx gangbanger guilty of an "act of terror" for fatally shooting a 10-year-old altar girl outside a christening party. For the...
JEWISH PROF TARGETED
A swastika yesterday was found spray-painted on the office door of a Jewish professor at Teachers College who studies the Holocaust and vehemently opposed the visit to the Columbia campus...
MS VICTIM SUES CO-OP
A woman forced to give up her beloved and quaint home on the Upper West Side because the private community where she lived wouldn't accommodate her disability is now suing...
MOBSTER COPS SHAKEDOWN PLEA
Reputed Genovese boss Danny "The Lion" Leo fessed up yesterday to a pair of shakedown schemes that could cage the Mafia leader for the next seven years. Leo, 66, admitted...
FEDS' DN-ERROR
A Long Island couple on trial on charges of slavery scored points in court yesterday when a federal agent admitted that authorities did not dust for fingerprints the weapons allegedly...
RADIO STAR'S STATIC
Radio legend Carol Miller took the stand in Manhattan yesterday - as the victim of an allegedly deranged fan who was so fanatically obsessed, he proposed marriage to her over...
FINEST GOES TO 'POT'
A veteran NYPD cop served as both a dealer and the muscle for a massive marijuana distribution ring on Long Island, Suffolk police said yesterday. Glen Smokler, a patrol officer...
ARROW MAN GETS POINT
"Stupid Cupid" insurance broker Noel Lauria pleaded guilty yesterday to accidentally shooting arrows out of his window while target-practicing with his compound bow in his Upper East Side apartment this...
TV DIRTY 'DOG' SHOCK
A&E muzzled TV bounty hunter Duane "Dog" Chapman last night, suspending production of his show after a tape surfaced of him using the n- word. Chapman spewed the hateful slur...
HILLARY IN NEW IDENTITY CRISIS
Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday refused for a second straight day to say whether she supports or opposes Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses - as...
BLOGGER PAIR $OCKS CLINTON
Conservative bloggers Matthew Margolis and Mark Noonan yesterday filed a formal campaign-finance complaint against Hillary Rodham Clinton with the Federal Election Commission. Citing reports in The Post and L.A. Times,...
PARENTS' REMOTE CONTROL
"Turn off the TV!" is a phrase parents are using more with their kids, says a new Census Bureau report that shows moms and dads are paying more attention to...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
MANHATTAN Two thugs were arrested for attacking a man on a Chelsea street, authorities said yesterday. For unspecified reasons, Thomas Ringel, 29, and Matthew Ambrose, 29, both from Connecticut, grabbed...
'THIS GUY IS GONNA GET AWAY WITH MURDER'
IT WASN'T a smile of inevitable victory, but the gloom of looming defeat had definitely taken wing. Lindley DeVecchio gave a definitive nod, a wide grin and a simple "yes"...
LEFT LANE TO AN '08 DISASTER
WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rod ham Clinton had a bad night at the Democratic debate as she dodged around the issue of whether to give illegal aliens driver's licenses, she...
LOTTERY
NEW YORK Midday Nos. Wed.: 611; Lucky Sum: 8 / Midday Win-4 Wed.: 7189; Lucky Sum: 25 / Evening Nos. Wed.: 459; Lucky Sum: 18; Evening Win-4 Wed.: 8444; Lucky...
LICENSE TO WAFFLE?
Oh, what a dilemma for Sen. Clinton. On the one hand are those polls showing that even a majority of local Democrats - not to mention an overwhelming 72 percent...
MIKE THE KNIFE - WE HOPE
Mayor Bloomberg has put out the word: Time to tighten the belt. With tax revenue already shrinking, thanks to a real-estate slowdown compounded with losses in the financial markets, Bloomberg...
MORE GARBAGE FROM THE PBA
If Patrolmen's Benevolent Association President Patrick Lynch really wants to know why city sanitation workers make more money than NYPD cops, maybe he should look in the mirror. "New York...
AN UNFAIR ATTACK
I HAVE been writing about schooling for 40 years, but have never experienced an attack as intemperate as the one by Kathryn Wylde ("Hypocritical Critic, PostOpinion, Oct. 30). This attack,...
CONQUERING CONGESTION
THE mayor's plaNYC 2030 is chock-full of good ideas that get us thinking about how we ensure that New York is a great and livable place for the next generation....
NANCY'S IRON FIST
A STORY told in cloakrooms of the House of Representa tives shows how ironic life on Capitol Hill can be. Jim McCrery, the ranking Republican on the Ways and Means...
CHOOSING SCHOOL CHOICE
IN today's political taxonomy, "progressives" are rebranded liberals dodging the damage they did to their old label. Perhaps their most injurious idea - injurious to themselves and public schools -...
ACTS OF INDIGNATION: HOLLYWOOD LEANS LEFT
THE ISSUE: The Hollywood left's newest wave of Bush-bashiong activism. It is long known that Hollywood stars are among the most liberal and socialist ("Showbiz Pinheads," Bill O'Reilly, PostOpinion, Oct....
A 21ST CENTURY DEFENSE
THE ISSUE: The problem with the United States' reliance on satellites for national defense. Ralph Peters' chilling reminder that we cannot depend on sophisticated satellites blanketing space for our national...
TREAT, NO TRICK
Federal Reserve policy makers treated investors to a Halloween interest-rate cut that sent stock prices soaring. The move - the second rate cut since the subprime-lending debacle unleashed chaos and...
MEYER, OTHERS RESIGN FROM BOA
Banc of America Securities continues to rapidly reduce its headcount, as one of its senior bond traders announced his resignation yesterday. Investment-grade bond-trading chief Michael J. Meyer announced his departure...
AS INTEREST RATES GO DOWN, INFLATION GOES UP
YOU probably don't know this - and won't believe it when I tell you - but inflation dropped significantly last quarter, especially when it comes to energy prices. That, at...
BUCKING THE TREND
Wall Street firms may be taking multi-billion dollar write-offs, but Lazard boss Bruce "Bid 'em up" Wasserstein still managed to blow away third-quarter earnings yesterday on higher fees for deal...
THE GEEK $QUAD
Google's stock price surged above $700 a share yesterday, only three weeks after passing $600. The jump in the shares - which have added $33 billion in market value in...
NO CONTRACT DEAL BY WRITERS, PRODUCERS
Hollywood writers and studio bosses let a contract deadline expire at midnight last night without reaching a new agreement. With the expiration of the contract, The Writers Guild of America...
HOUSING HIT HURTS DILLER'S IAC NET
Struggles in the housing market tripped up third-quarter profits for Barry Diller's IAC/Inter- ActiveCorp, as its Lending Tree unit offset gains made by the company's ticket business and HSN, the...
FCC OPENS APT. DOORS
Apartment dwellers may soon get cheaper cable-TV bills after federal regulators ruled that cable companies couldn't sign exclusive pacts with building owners. The change, unanimously approved by the Federal Communications...
ALL CHARGES DISMISSED IN DEVECCHIO CASE
Brooklyn prosecutors this morning dismissed all charges against alleged rogue FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio after reviewing tapes of interviews key witness Linda Schiro gave a decade ago that contradicted much...
DON IMUS BACK ON THE AIR
It's official: Don Imus is coming back to the airwaves. As The Post first reported back in August, radio's lone cowboy is expected to announce this afternoon or, at the...
CHINESE TAKEOUT BY FIRM
A once high-flying Chinese security services company has hit some major turbulence after an independent research shop issued a scathing report on the quality of its financial statements. RiskMetrics' CFRA,...
'THIS NIGHTMARE IS OVER': DEVECCHIO
Former FBI agent Lindley DeVecchio, who was freed on all mob-related murder charges, lashed out at Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes today for making his life a living hell. "I...
THE DEVECCHIO TAPES
Track 1 In this clip, reporters Tom Robbins and Jerry Capeci discuss the fatal Halloween 1989 shooting of an innocent teen, Dominick Masseria, by four kids, including Linda Schiro's son...
KID STUFF
We bought our three-bedroom apartment in Sunnyside, Queens, two years ago, thinking that we'd grow into it. But we hadn't planned on growing into it so soon. No matter. When...
BEAUTIFUL PRICE DROPS
It's model markdown madness for two of Manhattan's lovelier catwalkers - who are shaving collective millions off the asking prices of their penthouse apartments. The first is Brazilian bombshell Gisele...
STRIKE A POSY
Flowers were my first love, and the reason I got into this business," says event designer David Stark. "When I started working with flowers to support my painting, I had...
JUST SOLD!
Manhattan EAST VILLAGE $710,000 205 E. 10th St. Renovated prewar one-bedroom, 11/2-bath co-op, 800 square feet, with living room, open kitchen with stainless-steel appliances and dishwasher, renovated bath, Jacuzzi, crown...
OBJECTS OF DESIGN
AT Manhattan House, the block-long, 20-story rental-to-condo conversion of the 1952 Gordon Bunshaft-designed building at 200 E. 66th St., the sales team has turned up its collective nose at the...
SHUTTER TO THINK
When your new boutique condo project is surrounded by serious starchitecture, including buildings by Frank Gehry, Annabelle Selldorf and Jean Nouvel, how do you make it stand out? Easy. Hire...
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HOUSES OF THE WEEK
Harlem $810,000 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 2 Square feet: 1,203 Maintenance: $579.73 This shiny condo in a brand-new "designer" building on Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard features a sun-filled open living room...
DREAM HOMES
Scarsdale, N.Y. $5.8 million This "elegant" home is set in Murray Hill, but not that Murray Hill (think grand houses and rolling hills, not cookie-cutter apartments and overcrowded bars). "Completely...
DRIVING THE ROAD TO FANTASY SUCCESS
IT'S TIME for the midseason Fantasy Tracker traffic report. Let's go to Chopper 4 to find out what trade avenues are moving well and which turns to take on the...
SPORTS SHORTS
BASEBALL: It's a Dunn dealAdam Dunn became the Reds' highest-paid player yesterday when the team picked up his contract option for $13 million next season. Also, the Reds picked up...
PICK SIX JACKPOT HITS 243G
William Condren, co-owner of Kentucky Derby winners Strike the Gold and Go for Gin and Preakness winner Louis Quatorze, died Monday in Boston at age 74. Plans for a memorial...
LIU HAS LAST LAUGH
Jim Ferry took the news well. He wasn't angry, wasn't bitter, wasn't even frustrated. When you're picked to finish last in the 11-team Northeast Conference, you probably have reason to...
MARATHON QUEENS BATTLE FOR THRONE
Win or lose in Sunday's New York City Marathon, either Jelena Prokopcuka or Gete Wami will come out of the race as the champion of the inaugural World Marathon Majors...
WOLVERINES SHOW CLAWS
LLOYD Carr knows how to play it coy with the media. The Michigan coach is aware how the game is played: Give as little midweek information as possible, keep the...
HAT TRICK OR TREAT
The new coach changed his tune to the Devils' old standard, and their fortunes changed, as well, for their first victory in Newark. Brent Sutter relented from his dislike of...
COWBOYS NEXT FOR REJUVENATED GIANTS' DEFENSE
Yesterday morning, Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo was talking with the other defensive assistants about the steep incline ahead for the team. After playing and beating up opposing offenses ranked...
COLES MOANS FOR CHAD
Laveranues Coles, usually a ray of light in the Jets locker room even during worst of times, was in a foul mood yesterday. Coles not only has seen his best...
THE 'KELL' CURVE
There's a quiet, confident swagger about Kellen Clemens that belies his youth and inexperience. That's something the Jets hope will help their new starting quarterback succeed in bringing them a...
MARBURY AIMS FOR MORE SHOTS
It wasn't close to the "I've-got-to-be-Starbury" mantra from the Larry Brown fiasco, but Stephon Marbury revealed yesterday he's going to look for his shot more this season than last. Marbury's...
SPIN MOVE
Knicks president/coach Isiah Thomas made remarks yesterday that suggested he does not feel he should be fired if the Knicks fail to make playoffs for the fourth straight season, believing...
MOISES BACK!
Moises Alou was among the few bright spots for the Mets as their season was collapsing, and the organization is betting he can stay healthy enough to make significant contributions...
GLAVINE FILES FOR FREE AGENCY
Tom Glavine likely will return for a 22nd major league season, but for whom he will pitch remains a mystery. The left-hander filed for free agency yesterday, joining Luis Castillo,...
JEFFERSON DOMINATES
Richard Jefferson said he is as optimistic as ever. But stuff optimism, he's healthy. And that's the most important thing. "I say what better way to prove you're healthy than...
THUMBS UP!
Vince Carter shot much of the night like his hands were stapled together. The Nets had a massive lead and, in keeping with a team policy established last year, they...
RELOADED FOR ONE MORE SHOT
MEANWHILE, back at The Swamp, the hockey team is gone and the basketball team lying in the bulrushes, trying to enjoy the camouflage as always. "We actually filed an application...
AGITATOR AVERY ITCHING TO RETURN FOR RANGERS
No more yellow jersey for the Rangers' instigator extraordinaire. Sean Avery yesterday discarded the no-contact color and skated in a full practice for the first time since spraining his left...
ON HIS HONOR
When Joe Girardi is introduced as Joe Torre's replacement today at Yankee Stadium, he can be comforted by the fact that if Andy Pettitte isn't with Girardi next summer, there's...
HOLLYWOOD ENDING
Though the Dodgers strongly denied they have a completed deal with former Yankees manager Joe Torre, people on both sides of the situation said yesterday the process of Torre replacing...
MAKING THE WINNING MOVES
The Yankees' world has been turned upside down the past two weeks, but if they come out of this upheaval with a new winning team concept, the change will be...
JOE TORRE TO MANAGE DODGERS
A recruitment process that started before Joe Torre turned down the Yankees on Oct. 18 ended today when the Dodgers and Torre announced a three-year deal that puts him in...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
There is more than one way to shave a cat. A pair of Maine siblings has made up after they rumbled over shaving the flea-infested family cat. Nicholas Palmer, 22,...
Roberto Cavalli sure knows how to party.
Hands down, tonight's Roberto Cavalli Vodka-sponsored Halloween dinner and party at Cipriani 42nd Street was the best Halloween party I've been to in my whole life.Here's Russell Simmons hanging out...
Starbury talks of shooting more
By MARC BERMANThere were interesting goings-on at practice Wednesday, making for interesting blog fodder.Stephon Marbury was interviewed for 15 minutes by the famous author Marc Eliott, whose doing an oral...